Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NW NORTH ROAD
817-1/16/126 (North side)
Footbridge over mill stream, in
grounds 40m north of North Road
House

II

Footbridge. 1848 (date on central escutcheon on arch).
Architect Thomas Smith. Cast-iron with gault brick and stucco
abutments. Segmentally arched girders with trellis-pattern
spandrels, with bamboo-form lattice pattern handrails.
Abutments have piers with caps and ramped downswept connectors
to join handrails.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Thomas Smith acquired additional land in the
mid 1840s to embellish the setting of his house by landscaping
the island between the mill stream and River Beane, and the
north side, after the picturesque manner of JC Loudun. The
folly, north of the river, now in the grounds of Beane River
View, Port Vale and the gazebo now in the grounds of Rockall,
Rockleigh (qqv) were built as part of the garden architecture.

Listing NGR: TL3218312664

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559116

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)